krŏn'ĭk-O's witnesses the trajectories reflected in intersecting front lines and encourages the exchanges and expressions of experiences, inspirations, and practical means of loving and living. Author/Poet/Organizer, L.A. Profe, is a queer Oaxaqueña raised in the Venice Boardwalk. Initated by the streets of L.A. she comes from a long line of sidelined intellectuals, of displaced indigenous farmers, shaped and influenced by matriarchal figures of resistance.
Monday, July 11, 2011
drop the i
a twisted
gratitude
i said
drop the i
drop the i
drop the il
keep the legal
legitimize
my tongue
respect my accent
quarantine the colors
that project
“poor and
criminal”
c’mon
let’s
be
equal
i said
drop the i
i said
drop the il
keep the legal
cause i never want to be your mirror
the other
your “equal”
that lets you get away
with some
straight
out
racist shit
genocidal garbage
like damn,
“did this fool just say that shit”
divide and conquer
cut the chains of
charity corners
famed lotto liquor store owners
making payments for a life
you have yet to live
enjoy
better said
annoy the fuck out of it
so that our imprints
libres, lindas, y locas
invite the recollection
of a memory
from within
impartially breathing
call in 2 being
what we whispered to the scribes in the heavens
we wanted to become
All or None of Us
gentrifying deaths
indebted to the interest rate
of pelican bay hunger strikers
S.H.U.I.ng starvation though every cell
in the golden state
for humanity
castigate their own shadows
orchestrate a fire that burns
louder than pre 4th of July firework
laker championship
Dodgers versus Giants baseball game
kind of riots
buckled in chains
without permission
take over their selfs
so if you feel like a petrifying wetback faggot caught your eye
call it like it is
so that no one has to hide
so that third genders
are as visible to us as our third eyes
so that duality is not just a standard option
of a partriachal dichotomous potion
cause queer is a politic
history has afforded us to
maintain
(2x)
transcend tranny titles
spirit at our core
self-centered botox vultures
american
A-list toy boy
need to have it culture
nurtures hate
and
neglects to interject
so i don’t claim this shit as mine
in taxes and titles
write off
my idols
for saints
that castrate mistakes
im with a holier kind of death
a more humane way to understand the
exits
and fire escapes
of this here land of the great
but man made laws weren’t made for me
a heavenly scion
morphed every morning
ren, yi, li zhi, xin,
what is criminal?
when sinners are considered saints
when the
waving flag
of corporations
signal a more humane occupation
when these have more rights
than the population of the foreign nation they
efface through drought and starvation
cause
to love something is to want it to live
and if you love this city
thrive from within
like the homeboi says
“he who wants a rose must respect the thorn”
people of the corn are reborn outside of concrete jungle walls
in this western world we all medicate,
in obsessive lust,
w. self-centerness,
desiring material
musts
outside of ourselves...
suffocate our realities for the verbs
that orchestrate
a sick pathology to feed off of drama,
misery, and emotional comas where only right and wrong matter
..fuck the gray matter,
pavement n dirt have
always been my favorite color
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
summer fevers
I sit down to write this play with fear
about the truth I will share
In this case, my take of what it was for others
Aside from a collective memory
that some rather not share with me,
I trace most crossroads
to moments
where I didn’t feel lost
I remember the need to
trust
to believe in something greater-
In me
not outside in satisfactory complacent contentment’s
but true peace
I heard the voice within
the paranormal mumbles
in cold feet
in doubt
in intuitive stomach growls
turn into
restless night aches
boiling nightmares
into summer fevers
yes the moments where I had no recollection of being a quitter
I’ve grown
And the comparison
still shows
In my demeanor,
I don’t care to be like anyone else
Role models
disguise the distance between making it
and breaking back midnight hour graveyard watchmen days
But heroes
Do exist
Not superman like
A series of prescribed events
Heavenly sent
Malinalli
Sprouts
Changes
rains in each of us,
the redundancy of bringing the past into the ever so unpredictable yet "coincidental" now
where its heavy to carry
the imprints of a
thousand loves
and lives lived
proclivities aside,
if a player recognize game:
then my friend-
we’ve already met
cause all the things that i hate
about others
starts with myself
cause we give meaning to livelihoods by adding titles
to the careers we profess ourselves to
be born to do
a twisted
gratitude
to find a place where silence is golden
where we are not told what to do
what to wear
when to swear
or whom to pledge allegiance to.
until this day i can count the times i raised my right hand over my heart
it’s an art
a translucent penchant
to be lied to
seduced
into abuse
a ridicule of gadgets and distractions
like a kitties trip to a petco
kind of satisfaction
the ethos
a credo that
sings 2-maybe-3
Mex’s
reza 4 corazones del pueblo
y canta 5 leimerts
el mundo te da
donde mas te duele
mero mero
where
it hurts
si le hablas
escucha
y
si escuchas
habla
recio
suave
amable
sin rencor
ni malicia
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